Emergency Preparedness Planning and Its Effect on Landslide Disaster Readiness: a Community-based Study
Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Clinical Trial
Abstract: ABSTRACT The problem of landslide risk that has a significant impact and the importance of preparedness efforts, it is very necessary to increase public awareness and perception to participate in landslide disaster planning. The public must understand the emergency plan to overcome the risk of landslides that can threaten safety, so it is necessary to provide an Emergency Planning simulation. This study was intended to explore the effect of emergency preparedness planning on community’s ability to prepare for and respond to landslide disasters. This research with Preexperimental design involved 84 respondents as the sample size through purposive sampling technique with inclusion criteria of youth groups aged 17-35 years. In this study, Emergency Planning simulation intervention was given twice with a duration of 170 minutes for each face-to-face meeting. The results showed an increase in community preparedness in the good category, which initially increased from 33.3% to 53.5% and a decrease in the less prepared category from 14.3% to 3.6%. The results of the Wilcoxon test data analysis obtained P value: 0.001 (
Institutions: STIKES Karya Husada Kediri, University of Lahore
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4413229318